Speaker Jake Avnet

Jake Avnet is Chief Operating Officer of Indigenous Media, managing the day-to-day operations of the company and overseeing original content development for digital and emerging platforms as well as marketing, partnerships and distribution strategy. Jake has served as executive producer on such groundbreaking programming as Five Points, an original scripted drama series for Facebook Watch; 60 Second Docs, the top social publisher of exclusively original content on Facebook; Sickhouse, the first scripted feature film released in real-time on Snapchat; and WIGS, one of the first YouTube-funded channels, featuring female-centric scripted series. Jake has always been an early adopter in the digital content space, producing 100s of hours of viral web content, music videos, linear and digital series as well as films that have generated hundreds of millions of impressions for companies such as Warner Brothers, FOX and the Sundance Film Festival.